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Shape Machining proves snap-cure molding capabilities
UK-based Shape Machining used TenCate snap-cure prepregs with a 4-minute cure to prove the viability of the material for high-volume automotive composites.
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BGF – US link to global composites high-tech
With >50 years in composites, this well-known US supplier is widening its portfolio of composites technologies into opportunities for integrated products and advanced manufacturing.
WatchTooling: 3D printing’s “killer app”
If 3D printing can be scaled to make tools for composite auto body panels ... it will be transformative
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Students develop composite sled prototype
IACMI enables art-to-part composite sled prototype project with University of Tennessee, Knoxville engineering students
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Airtech's Combo-Tech combines vacuum bagging materials
Airtech Advanced Materials Group (Huntington Beach, CA, US) has introduced Combo-Tech, an expanded product line that bonds various vacuum bagging materials together to form what is said to be a better overall product that reduces touch labor.
WatchVELOX, Ilium Composites now partners
VELOX GmbH a European distributor of raw material specialties for the composites industry, has formed a new distribution partnership with Ilium Composites, a manufacturer of glass reinforcements.
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Maverick Corp. sister company sold to Loar Group
Maverick Molding, sister company of high-temperature polyimide supplier Maverick Corp., was acquired by New York-based Loar Group.
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Large, Class A parts every 60-150 seconds
Romeo RIM advances long fiber injection process efficiency for lighter, lower-cost composite parts.
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Improving one-piece aerostructures by automating preforming
IAI’s fully automated “one-shot” RTM production line cuts helicopter seat cost 30% vs. hand layup prepreg.
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Plant tour: Diamond Aircraft Austria, Wiener Neustadt, Austria
Composites use among general aviation manufacturers is far from unusual, but none apply them quite like this airframer does.
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